Andy Murkin has been making music for several decades,
mostly in secret. Responding to pressure from family and friends (by ignoring
them and going ahead anyway), he now presents his first album . . .

Here's what he has to say about the tracks on From
Aardvark to Zebra:

1. From A to Z means two things. First
of all, obviously, it refers to the title of the album From Aardvark to
Zebra, but it's also a tribute: A is for 'Andy' and Z is for 'Zappa'.
This is the Fast Version.

2. How Can You Say? . . . has this title
because it used to have lyrics beginning with this phrase. In the end I decided
it sounded better played on the Theremin. I hope you do, too.

3. Islington is a connected series of
short pieces of music and treated speech, which I like to call Sonic
Poetry. The voice - also featured on tracks 5 & 6 - belongs to a friend
of mine called Adrian.

4. Words is a number I wrote long before
I became an English teacher. The spoken intro is performed by Bruce.

5. Theme From An Imaginary Spy Film is
meant to evoke the atmosphere of those films about the Cold War we used to watch.
It also contains a second piece of Sonic Poetry on a related theme.

6. I'm Growing Some Bonsai Trees begins
with edited sounds from the radio and concludes with yet more Sonic Poetry, from
which the title is taken.

7. From A to Z (the Slow
Version) concludes the selection. The guitar solo was recorded about 15
years before the rest of the instruments. It was a bit of a struggle to get them
to match up.

The music on this album was composed, arranged, disarranged
and produced by Andy Murkin. Most of it was played by his Apple Macintosh, the
rest by him.